APA Office of Continuing Education

This is an advanced workshop for clinicians who have special interest and experience in assessment and treatment of ADD. New models emphasizing executive-function and working memory impairments in ADD will be presented. Advanced clinical problems discussed will include unmanageable preschoolers, ADD with bipolar disorder, documentation of ADD/LD in high school/college, OCD and social impairment in ADD with Asperger's, options for treatment of ADD in individuals with substance-abuse history, and other complex cases of ADD with comorbid disorders.

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Successful completion will provide you with 6 CE credits. A CE certificate may be downloaded and printed immediately upon completion.

Price: US $120.00 for 6 weeks access
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This intermediate workshop presents practical information for practicing psychologists about the effects of common antidepressant, how to best explain these medications and their effects to patients, and how to employ cognitive-behavioral principles and practices to enhance pharmacotherapy. The antidepressant teaching is based on understanding the division of antidepressants into seven classes according to their neurotransmitter effects. Once the seven classes are recognized, it is possible to have a logical approach to selection of a particular antidepressant based on the side effect profile of the class to which it belongs. In addition, practitioners will learn to identify medical illness, medication side effects, and drug effects that can produce depressive symptoms and practical outcome measures to track and modify treatment.

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Successful completion will provide you with 4 CE credits. A CE certificate may be downloaded and printed immediately upon completion.

Price: US $80.00 for 4 weeks access
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The Bylaws of the American Psychological Association charge the APA Ethics Committee with formulating “rules or principles of ethics for adoption by the Association.” The APA adopted its first Ethics Code in 1953, and in 1996 the Ethics Committee began the process of drafting the Code’s 10th revision. This course provides an overview of the new APA Ethics Code, which the APA Council of Representatives adopted in August 2002 and which became effective in June 2003. While the course focuses on highlights of the 10th Ethics Code revision, the course participant will gain a solid grasp of the new Code’s letter and spirit.

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Successful completion will provide you with 4 CE credits. A CE certificate may be downloaded and printed immediately upon completion.

Price: US $80.00 for 4 weeks access
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An overwhelming number of patients have sleep problems, which can be disconcerting to clinicians without formal training in the treatment of these disorders. A wellspring of evidence supports several psychological treatments of sleep disorders such as insomnia, parasomnias, and circadian rhythm disorders, and there is a growing need for practitioners with expertise in these techniques. However, there is a bottleneck in dissemination. The main goal of this introductory workshop is to educate clinicians about how to provide, and be reimbursed for, empirically validated treatments.

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Successful completion will provide you with 5 CE credits. A CE certificate may be downloaded and printed immediately upon completion.

Price: US $100.00 for 5 weeks access
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Bipolar disorder is a controversial and high-stakes diagnosis in children and adolescents. This intermediate workshop discusses key issues, including how bipolar disorder appears differently in children versus adults, how often it occurs in youths in different settings, what issues make an accurate diagnosis especially challenging, how to use specialized self-report and parent-report measures to diagnose it more accurately, and how to use cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques to treat pediatric bipolar disorder. New and updated content includes new measures and treatment implications of mania versus depression.

Biography of the Presenter

Successful completion will provide you with 6 CE credits. A CE certificate may be downloaded and printed immediately upon completion.

Price: US $120.00 for 6 weeks access
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Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM) are controversial and poorly understood illnesses without clearly defined causes or well-established treatments. In this introductory workshop, participants will learn about illness controversies; theories of causation; practical methods of psychological, behavioral, and community assessment; and effective, individualized treatment strategies using cognitive, behavioral, and experiential interventions. Using a mind/body approach, clinicians can offer realistic hope for substantial improvement to these patients.

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Successful completion will provide you with 8 CE credits. A CE certificate may be downloaded and printed immediately upon completion.

Price: US $120.00 for 6 weeks access
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This intermediate applied workshop will address clinical approaches to women coping with common pregnancy related complications. Presentations will focus on the assessment and treatment of: (1) women and couples who have experienced pregnancy loss during any trimester and (2) women with depression and anxiety during and after pregnancy. Strategies to prevent perinatal depression will also be reviewed. Case discussions will illustrate interventions for diverse women coping with pregnancy complications. Assessment tools will be provided as will guidelines for collaborative care with obstetricians and reproductive endocrinologists.

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Successful completion will provide you with 3 CE credits. A CE certificate may be downloaded and printed immediately upon completion.

Price: US $60.00 for 4 weeks access
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On August 9, 2006, a one day program entitled Expanding Psychology Practice to Primary Health Care; Evidence Skills and Issues was held prior to the APA’s Convention in New Orleans. There is much written and discussed concerning psychology integrating into medicine, but practical knowledge has been difficult to obtain. The focus this course, modeled on the program, is identification of key knowledge in the Integration of Psychology and Medicine. It includes specific workshops designed to teach skills necessary to implement evidenced-based assessment and interventions to medical patients.

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Successful completion will provide you with 7 CE credits. A CE certificate may be downloaded and printed immediately upon completion.

Price: US $140.00 for 7 weeks access
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This introductory workshop will help psychologists in independent or community based practice develop strategies to create and maintain reciprocal working relationships with medical professionals. Psychologists must shift practice patterns to collaborate with medical professionals to optimize patient care, facilitate referrals, and decrease professional isolation. Yet, many psychologists find working with medical professionals frustrating. Three psychologists with decades of experience working with primary care medical professionals will share their tips on finding collaboration-friendly medical professionals and establishing and maintaining rewarding collaborative relationships via shared patient care.

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Successful completion will provide you with 4 CE credits. A CE certificate may be downloaded and printed immediately upon completion.

Price: US $80.00 for 4 weeks access
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This intermediate workshop is designed to introduce participants to fast-evolving best practices of supervision and to enhance supervisory competence through experiential exercises. The workshop includes current research on supervision efficacy, optimal supervision, and parameters of competency based supervision with emphasis on empirical support. Multicultural competence, alliance development and repair, legal and ethical issues and risk management techniques, and more are highlighted in hands-on exercises, vignettes, and role-plays.

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Successful completion will provide you with 6 CE credits. A CE certificate may be downloaded and printed immediately upon completion.

Price: US $120.00 for 6 weeks access
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Active pedagogy, engaged learning, and creative online strategies are important tools for instructors who want to move their classrooms into the 21st century (Morton, 2007). This introductory workshop will help instructors rethink and redesign their own classroom materials for use in a highly interactive and high-quality online environment. Program directors and administrators of training programs who seek to meet accreditation demands for learning outcomes may also find the workshop helpful.

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Successful completion will provide you with 3 CE credits. A CE certificate may be downloaded and printed immediately upon completion.

Price: US $60.00 for 4 weeks access
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This is an introductory workshop for clinicians who would like to apply mindfulness in individual psychotherapy. Participants will learn how to use mindfulness to foster therapeutic connection and how to design mindfulness techniques for patients to practice between therapy sessions. The workshop will integrate theory, clinical material, and research. Topics discussed will include the three core mindfulness skills, the basic structure of mindfulness techniques, how to safely turn toward emotional suffering, and key clinical questions for the mindfulness-oriented psychotherapist. Instructional methodologies are meditation practice, small- and large-group discussions, case presentations, and clinical exercises such as role-playing.

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Successful completion will provide you with 4 CE credits. A CE certificate may be downloaded and printed immediately upon completion.

Price: US $80.00 for 4 weeks access
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In this INTERMEDIATE workshop on group therapy for survivors of psychological trauma, two manualized treatments are presented: trauma focus group therapy (TFGT), a behavioral model incorporating skills-building and trauma exposure; and present-centered group therapy (PCGT), a supportive approach informed by schema theory. Demonstration, didactics, and discussion center on group interventions for specific PTSD symptom clusters, as well as trauma-based attitudes, beliefs, and feelings. Application to recent trauma (e.g., war, terrorism, natural disaster) emphasizes adjustment issues, reintegration into community, and depathologizing of distress.

This workshop is designed to help you:

Detail the rationale for and the core components of trauma focus group treatment (TFGT) for PTSD,
Detail the rationale for the core components of present centered group treatment (PCGT) for PTSD,
Articulate key considerations for the appropriate staging and pacing of group PTSD treatments, and
Specify at least three strategies for addressing common group treatment for PTSD implementation impediments.

Successful completion will provide you with 4 CE credits. A CE certificate may be downloaded and printed immediately upon completion.

Price: US $80.00 for 4 weeks access
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Standard of care is a term frequently used and even more frequently misunderstood, especially when it comes to forensic assessment. There are many idiosyncratic approaches to forensic assessment that often purport to represent a standard of care. This ADVANCED workshop will take the definition of standard of care used in legal areas and demonstrate how, using established standards, guidelines, research, and practice documents, a forensic practitioner can meet a standard of care.

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Successful completion will provide you with 4 CE credits. A CE certificate may be downloaded and printed immediately upon completion.

Price: US $80.00 for 4 weeks access
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This intermidate workshop is for clinicians interested in learning about the needs of military personnel and their families during and after military deployments. CDP faculty will discuss recent findings on the impact of deployment and combat exposure on service members, the stress of deployment on families, and the complex individual and family problems associated with postdeployment difficulties including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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Successful completion will provide you with 6 CE credits. A CE certificate may be downloaded and printed immediately upon completion.

Price: US $120.00 for 6 weeks access
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This introductory workshop will summarize recent research findings associated with pediatric psychotropic drug treatment of internalizing and externalizing disorders, FDA indications and warnings, innovative neuroimaging studies of drug effects on developing brains, ways that psychologists may help enhance treatment adherence, other new role opportunities for psychologists, and important ethical and legal considerations. Presented primarily by members of the Division 16 Task Force on Pediatric Psychopharmacology, this workshop is intended to familiarize attendees with new developments. No prior training in psychopharmacology is necessary.

Successful completion will provide you with 4 CE credits. A CE certificate may be downloaded and printed immediately upon completion.

Price: US $80.00 for 4 weeks access
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This workshop reviews clinical personality assessment practices for an intermediate to advance audience by observing some of the limitations of the MMPI-2, which has become a dated instrument despite the 1989 restandardization, and the viability of the MMPI relative to other contemporary objective measures, including the PAI and the MCMI-III. Assessment practices also may include projective techniques, which have been increasingly criticized for limited reliability and validity. Evidence for the viability of projective techniques and professional and ethical implications of instrument selection will be provided.

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Successful completion will provide you with 3 CE credits. A CE certificate may be downloaded and printed immediately upon completion.

Price: US $60.00 for 4 weeks access
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This introductory workshop teaches principles of Positive Aging to optimize coping in later life. Specific strategies are described for the range of late-life problems, including adjusting to long-term care, caregiving, and death and dying. Evidence-supported geriatric counseling is examined from a Positive Aging perspective, and meaning-based life span therapies are introduced as techniques to help transform the problems of aging into opportunities for well-being and life enhancement.

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Successful completion will provide you with 4 CE credits. A CE certificate may be downloaded and printed immediately upon completion.

Price: US $80.00 for 4 weeks access
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What is the proper focus of evidence-based practice? Is it the treatment method, the psychotherapy relationship, the client as self-active healer, or principles based on the preponderance of evidence from the process-outcome research? In this program, five preeminent psychotherapy researchers advocate for these positions. A discussion by an expert in the area of psychotherapy integration emphasizes the need for methodological pluralism in understanding these different perspectives and a realistic stance when thinking about theory in the light of third-party reimbursement.

This symposium was organized by the Division of Psychotherapy for the 2005 annual convention of the American Psychological Association in Washington D.C. It is based on the 2006 book Evidence-based practices in mental health: Debate and dialogue on the fundamental questions edited by John C. Norcross, Larry E. Beutler, and APA past-president Ron F. Levant and published by the American Psychological Association.

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Successful completion will provide you with 4 CE credits. A CE certificate may be downloaded and printed immediately upon completion.

Price: US $80.00 for 4 weeks access
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Addictions are more common in mental health than in addiction treatment settings. This introductory workshop examines the personal, professional, and contextual reasons why these addictions rarely are recognized. Designed to meet the unique training needs of mental health professionals, participants are presented with a broadened conceptualization of addictions that includes substances and behaviors that vary along a continuum of severity. Based on this conceptualization, participants learn and practice techniques for screening, interviewing, and initiating treatment for addictions that can be seamlessly integrated into current practices.

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Successful completion will provide you with 4 CE credits. A CE certificate may be downloaded and printed immediately upon completion.

Price: US $80.00 for 4 weeks access
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Countertransference phenomena, the emotional responses of psychotherapists to their patients, are an inevitable component of psychotherapy. How psychotherapists feel about their patients provides important clinical data that influences the treatment process. In contrast to classical psychoanalytic thinking that represents the personal reactions of the psychotherapist as irrelevant or detrimental, more recent ideas understand these reactions as opportunities to enhance the treatment process.

Countertransference rage and hatred are particularly threatening topics. Psychotherapists are healers who care for their patients. To acknowledge hostile feelings towards a patient takes courage and professional maturity. How to make effective use of these feelings in understanding and managing the treatment relationship is challenging and risky. Nevertheless, hatred in its various forms is inevitable in a profession where exposure to intense affect is routine. In the treatment of personality disorders where the therapist is invited to reenact certain aggressive roles, the alternative to experiencing hatred may be affective numbing and stonewalling.

This symposium, originally presented at the 2005 APA Convention in Washington D.C., brings together four experienced psychotherapists to discuss the theoretical aspects of countertransference anger and hatred and its management in practice.

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Successful completion will provide you with 4 CE credits. A CE certificate may be downloaded and printed immediately upon completion.

Price: US $80.00 for 4 weeks access
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This workshop was jointly sponsored by the APA Committee on Aging and the APA Office of Continuing Education in Psychology.

This intermediate workshop will increase the competencies of psychologists interested in working with older adults, and their families and caregivers. Topics include demographic characteristics and life contexts of older adults assessment and treatment of dementia, anxiety, and depression; common behavioral health issues; private practice strategies in working with older adults; filing for Medicare.

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Successful completion will provide you with 6 CE credits. A CE certificate may be downloaded and printed immediately upon completion.

Price: US $120.00 for 6 weeks access
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